I Teach Boys
Story★★★★One day at the reunion of a class which had graduated from college ? Used by permission of E. P. Dutton & Co. twenty years before, a stockbroker who had accumulated an immense fortune approached a classmate who had spent the years since graduation teaching in a preparatory school. The stockbroker, who had a fine scorn of nonfinancial achievements, said with half-concealed sarcasm, “So you teach Greek!” There was a moment of embarrassed silence, and then the teacher answered quietly, “No, you’re wrong. I teach boys. Greek is what I start with.”
Also attributed to: Unknown
The point
A teacher responds to a condescending stockbroker by correcting his focus: he teaches boys, not just Greek.
Scripture
Matthew 19:14Mark 9:371 Corinthians 13:2Colossians 3:23
Audience
AdultsYouthSmall Group
Occasions
Graduation · Teacher_appreciation · Back_to_school
Tone
Inspiring · Humorous · Convicting
To tell aloud
under a minute · 14 words